Skepticism

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Bug off, Ramachandran Lyer

Every day this idiot sends me examples of his “science”: I just created a filter entry specifically for Ramachandran Lyer to automatically trash his spam. It was entertainingly stupid for a while, but it’s gotten to be a bit much. For instance, just now:

Behind the ear there are eight veins, these veins has direct connections with uterus. When these veins are tuned with tip of the finger, will generate a vibration in the uterus that produce more eggs.(MW p-765) this in Sanskrit is called matri. Since it is attracting the vibrations from eight sides viz1) East, 2)South East,3)South, 4)South west, 5)West , 6)North West, 7)North and 8) North East, the vibrations are notified as ashta dik Bhujas. In Sanskrit these are mentioned as 16 Amino Acids, scribed on a copper plate. It is worshipped as the wife of universe (Aryaman) A diagram is drawn on a plate
There are 3 types of toxins that is responsible for miscarriages.
1) long Nero toxins, 2) Short Nero toxins and 3) Cardio toxins. In Vedas it is identified as head of a cattle like, Horse, Goat and camel. These toxins will affect the ion in protein, and eat away the electron the centre of the seed, thereby preventing that from taking minerals from the mother’s blood, so that the seed dissolve automatically, without life.

These toxins will affect the ion in protein, and eat away the electron the centre of the seed, thereby preventing that from taking minerals from the mother’s blood, so that the seed dissolve automatically, without life

Yeah, I get e-mails from a guy that points me to some page where some witnit hat solve major conumdrums like the mass of the electron, quantum gravity, and a bunch of other things that have been puzzles for a century or more. And the guy that thinks that the Sun has a surface. Sure beats Buzzfeed as entertainment.

He probably wasn’t, or at least not more than your average roman emperor. He did rebuild Rome after the fire, and there’s no actual evidence that he had anything to do with it. Fun fact: even today, the portuguese word for fire, “fogo”, derived from the latin “focus”, means not just “fire” but also house or home (and the interwebs tell me that the spanish “fuego” can also have that meaning).

What he had was, to put it mildly, a distaste for christians, and since most if not all current accounts of him were written or “revised” by christians…

For a second I misread the category of the post as “Kwoks”, and I thought, my god, there is more than one of them?

On topic, living in a world of one’s own creation must be nice, but I’ve never been able to maintain the necessary level of self-deception and/or ignorance necessary to do so. Darned reality keeps getting in the way.

Someone should hire this man to rewrite the Republican Party platform. It would mark a great increase in both the coherence of the document and the scientific validity of the document’s claims about human reproduction.

1) long Nero toxins, 2) Short Nero toxins and 3) Cardio toxins. In Vedas it is identified as head of a cattle like, Horse, Goat and camel.

Ah, Hindu Science!

We already know we have all Truth in the Vedas. Thus, we only need to de-code the sacred language to reveal how Nature works, for metaphysics supports the material world and shows us how to study it properly. Look for correspondences and use reason and intuition together: this is a more holistic approach. Modern science is only now catching up to ancient wisdom.

Iow, not only a crank — a religious crank. This is the nonsense word-salad of spiritual transcendence translated into a language we can analyze.

I think Trebuchet in #15 is on to something. But do attach a little note telling each “scientist” that the other guy seems to be proving him wrong and needs to be set straight. We certainly don’t want them teaming up.

Didn’t someone once figure out that in every breath you take, you breath in molecules that were also breathed in by a Roman emperor (and, I believe, a dying Roman emperor’s last breath at that). So that might be one way for the Nero toxins to enter the body.

We already know we have all Truth in the Vedas. Thus, we only need to de-code the sacred language to reveal how Nature works, for metaphysics supports the material world and shows us how to study it properly. Look for correspondences and use reason and intuition together: this is a more holistic approach. Modern science is only now catching up to ancient wisdom.

It’s almost like there’s a script out there, somewhere. You know those cute Markov-chain based generators that ‘compose’ generally grammatically correct if not particularly coherent text. Dump any source text in, and it gives you new blocks o’ text, suitable for mocking up page layouts, or whatever else mischief might occur to you…

The script is like that one, but in this one you dump in an allegedly holy text, and out comes the ‘all of modern science can be found within these ancient verses’ thing. And sure, this version of the script runs in human brains, but otherwise, pretty similar same deal.

Speaking of spam, a fell into a phishing trap and some bot or other got a hold of my e-mail password. I wouldn’t have fallen for it if the service I use hadn’t been playing up the security to a ridiculous degree recently (so that worked well). It was only for fifteen minutes while I ran around getting my passwords changed more difficult than it should be these days) but in that time it sent a load of spam e-mails to everyone in my contacts list. So if you got one, or several, I apologise. And realise that I’m probably in your spam filter now. Hooray!

How do veins behind the ear have a direct connection with the uterus? And in Sanskrit, the points of the compass are 16 amino acids inscribed on a copper plate along with some sort of diagram; said copper plate then being named Aryaman and being worshipped as the Wife of the Universe? Really?